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Movie Mistakes Take 4 (Movie Mistakes)
ASIN: 0753511134
Release Date: 2007-03-06 |
Book Description
Ever noticed the stagehand caught on set during the Tin Man's dance in The Wizard of Oz?Or seen the cliff in the middle of the sea in Pirates of the Caribbean?Everyone loves a good movie, but there's nothing better than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder in them.In this completely updated edition, Jon Sandys has included new mistakes from films such as Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, War of the Worlds, and King Kong.
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And the hits just keep on coming........1999-02-10
Well Bill, you have done it again. This is going to be big, really big. Have you ever wished you could learn more about the movie business? Well this is your chance to look behind the scenes with a slightly different view. Most people don't ever really see to many mistakes on the big screen or at home on TV but, that is just because they are not properly trained as to what to look for. I will say that after reading this book you will become a "Master Flim Flub Finder". I know that I have. Bill has once again produced a GREAT "G" rated book that you can take the whole family to read. Everytime you turn on a movie you will run to the book shelf to find out where the mistakes are in that movie. Thanks to Bill it is all wrapped up in a nice little package for you to enjoy. You will want more and that will be very easy because this is a "Sequel" to other "Film Flub" books that Bill has written. You will find that the information located in this book will keep you amused for years to come. This is the kind of "G" Rated material that we are all looking for. You will enjoy this book over and over again with you family and friends. Don't stop now Bill, there are new movies being released every year and that can only mean more mistakes to catch. I have rated this book at the highest rating of 5 even though I believe it to have a much higher rating. I have found some flubs that even Bill hasn't caught yet. Buy the book and find out for yourself how much fun you are missing. Bill, once again I say keep up the good work and don't stop. Thank You.
I'm so glad that Bill put this information together........1999-02-10
I must have been one of the first people to own this book. I am now a follower of Bill's books. After reading this book I had to go back and watch all of those flicks that he talks about. I was amazed at what I had missed. This book will give you hours (no, days) of amusement. I have gone on to find may film flubs not yet published by Bill. You will learn so much from this book that you too will become a "Flub Master" as I have. This book is worth finding at any cost so that your Bill Givens set can be complete. You are not wasting any of you good hard earned money here. This is good "G" rated entertainment and sometimes thats hard to find anymore. I rated the book 5 stars for its content and its ability to make me think now everytime I watch a movie for things that I would never of thought of before. Bill Givens don't ever stop. To this very day I still refer back to this book when an old movie comes on that is profiled in this book. I have enjoyed this book not only with my whole family but also with my friends. Thank You.
This is a "sequel" that almost tops the originals..........1997-07-11
You see them all the time. Or maybe you don't. Those with sharp eyes catch them. How an actor in a movie might be holding an object in one shot and it's not there in the next. How the "reality" of a film's time period can be proved invalid with anachronisms like watches and sneakers. These little slip-ups, called, in the business, continuity errors, happen in virtually every movie, and finding one can be a joy to a viewer. Especially if one has read any of the "Film Flubs" series by Bill Givens.
This series of books, which focuses on these curious little mistakes that happen in films, reaches new heights of hilarity with the third installment, "Film Flubs: The Sequel". I guarantee that once you've read these particular volumes, you'll find yourself searching for those same "little mistakes" yourself.
In the book, Givens, a writer for several magazines, takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest blunders captured on film in recent years. He doesn't shy away from attacking the big name directors, either. He has whole sections entitled "Picking on the Biggies" where he focuses on some of the biggest films of recent years: "Terminator 2," "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves," "Cape Fear," and more. Among the more memorable gaffes...
-In "Terminator 2," Linda Hamilton is heard stating that the human body has 215 bones. There are only 206.
-"Robin Hood"'s character of Azeem (Morgan Freeman) seems to be WAY ahead of his time in some of the contraptions he carries...a telescope, gunpowder, a Scimitar sword, all of which did not exist in the 12th century.
-In "The Rocketeer," set in the mid-1930's, German money is referred to a "Deutchmarks." Even then-Disney head Jeffery Katzenberg had to 'fess up to that one...German money back then was actually called the "rieschmark."
This is just a quick sample...there are many more for your enjoyment and amusement in "Film Flubs: The Sequel." And, as much as I enjoy this book, I also strongly urge you to pick up all of the other "Flubs" books...they contain even more wonderful gaffes from some of the top movies of all time.
But what is the main reason you should read "Film Flubs: The Sequel"? Take a close look at the section marked "The Sharp Eyed, Quick Witted, Film Flub Spotter Squad," where Givens lists the names of those people who contributed to the book. Yep, my name's in there! Let it never be said that I don't engage in shameless self-promotion now and again...
-Jeff McGinnis
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find the mistakes in some of your favorite movies.......2004-06-29
Every movie has some sort of "mistake" that was made during the editing process or during the filming of the movie and it just happens to make it into the finished product. It could be as simple as a character taking off his glasses in two shots only seconds apart, or as strange as the odometer in "Back to the Future" giving different (and impossible) readings in various shots. This is a book that covers these little flubs in the filmmaking process.
The authors' intent is not to point these out to show how bad these movies are, but rather these are the movies the authors love and have seen time and time again and it is these little things that they enjoy catching in movies. This book is not an exhaustive list of every movie mistake in every movie ever made, but it does cover a large number of movies, from the Matrix to Terminator 2 to Titanic to an old Abbott and Costello movie. The mistakes are numbered and the time (to the minute, but not second) that the mistake occurs is noted. The authors note which mistakes are ones that with just a little bit of research could have been avoided and which ones just keep happening over and over again. The book disproves some alleged mistakes on films, and also makes suggestions on things that do not quite qualify as mistakes, but don't make sense in the context of the film.
There is a companion volume out: "Oops They did it Again! More Movie Mistakes that Made the Cut" which covers more movies than were included in this volume, but this was a good book to see what sort of mistakes were made in the making of some of your favorite movies. There may never been an all-inclusive book, but this one is a good start.
-Joe Sherry
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Have you ever watched Gladiator and seen the gas cylinder in the back of one of the Roman chariots? Or the stagehand caught on set during the Tin Man's dance in The Wizard of Oz? Or the person escaping from the sinking Titanic wearing a digital watch - in 1912? Everyone loves a good movie, but there's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder in them. Movie Mistakes invites you into the world of the movie and shows you how no director or actor is infallible.
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Movie Mistakes Dot Com.......2004-11-17
There is also a site - www.moviemistakes.com, which is free (unless you want to pay for membership which allows access to pictures of the mistakes, less ads, etc), and shows many more mistakes. There are sections for TV and movie mistakes, and each show is ordered either into episodes or ordered by rating (you can give thumbs up or thumbs down to the mistake, and the most popular will end up in the Top 20 mistakes). There are sections of each movie/show for major and minor mistakes, corrections (of the mistakes that are submitted), trivia, easter eggs, pictures, and questions (that are asked by anyone). You can submit any of these, as long as you follow the rules. There are also different types of mistakes - continuity, revealing, "deliberate", factual, audio, visible crew/equipment, plot holes, and other. The 'manager' of the site does not contribute mistakes, trivia, etc, but rather the audience submits all of the information. In the case of an incorrect mistake, someone can also correct it. It's a great site.
Where are all these mistakes?.......2003-05-24
I watched The Wizard of Os with this book's list of mistakes right by my side and I could not find most of the mistakes this book lists. I had another person watch it a second tiome with me and we could not find the things this author says are int he film. I have watched the film hundreds of times, up close on DVD, the restored versions, the old versions. These mistakes are not there.
Waste of money. Maybe the other films are more accurate.
Is that a gas cylinder in you chariot?.......2002-12-21
This is an entertaining compilation of some famous, and some not-so-famous, movie blunders. Mr Sandys has collected thousands of 'movie mistakes' from a variety of sources, mostly from keen internet users, and with some diligent checking, has lead to this good summary of various movie goofs.
The book is divided into various categories such as the all-time most popular mistakes (as voted on his website), visible crew, things that move that shouldn't (such as the dead), instantly changing weather, and the like. Some gems include wristwatches in 19th century Africa, visible land in the open ocean, actors knocking into doorframes, gas cylinders in ancient Rome, animals which don't care for directors ambitions, kids who cover their ears when a gunshot is coming, and the like. Its amusing, varied, painstakingly compiled and checked, and generally good fun.
Its not meant to be a criticism of various movies, just a lighthearted look at various movie goofs. If you have a DVD you can easily check some of the mistakes listed herein, although in recent years, wise editors have deleted some of the worst mistakes from DVD releases.
I have checked about 100 mistakes that interested me, and I have found that most of the time Mr Sandys and his horde of internet compilers are right, although I have found the odd 'mistake' amongst the listed mistakes, so to speak, at least in my opinion. But never mind about splitting hairs, most of the mistakes listed here are the more obvious and less contentious ones. Movie editors aren't perfect, and neither are mistake spotters!.
Its lighthearted, entertaining, and recommended for movie buffs, not to be taken too seriously. There is a good website also with much more detail, which gets quite a bit of traffic.
Great Book.......2002-10-13
Movie Mistakes is a really good book that I must say was fun to read. I love to watch movies and I am always looking for little errors that the directors, producers, ect. make. I have gone to the site movie-mistakes.com which is also a good place to find mistakes in movies.
When the movie Titanic came to theatres, there was not one person I knew who hadn't seen it. Everyone said it was the perfect movie but I found out they were so wrong! Last time I checked, Titanc had a total of 148 mistakes! I found that to be incredible! Anyways, buy the book. Its worth every penny and more!
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Ever noticed the cliff in the middle of the ocean in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN? Or spotted the boxer shorts on display in TROY? There's nothing we like more than spotting a movie mistake, and in the world of film no actor or director is infallible!
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Could have been a contender.......2007-02-26
How can you publish a book about movie flubs and include so few photos? "Roman soldiers" would have been a lot more fun if instead of telling us about the supposed mistakes in films, it showed us. If ever there was a need for a companion DVD, this book was it.
Aside from a few really interesting flubs, the book is actually quite repetitious. Scars and bloodstains appear and disappear or switch places. Bodies appear and disappear. But after a few dozen pages of this, I had had enough. I would have like to have heard from the film editors who use various techniques -- like film reversal -- that give rise to these flubs. It's not enough, for instance, to tell me that in a particular shot in the movie, "The Birds," that the attacking creatures cast no shadows. Why not? Were they included via double exposure? The book does not say.
Too, a number of the book's items were not flubs. In a James Bond film, a house appears to explode twice. Is this a flub, or a movie technique to allow the audience to experience the same event from multiple angles? And is it really a flub when a couple seems to switch sides while walking down the street -- or are we to assume that we are not witnessing every second of their perambulation? And is it a flub when a filmmaker deliberately includes material that he/she expects the moviegoer not to perceive?
That said, there were a few flubs that rose to the level of worthwhile -- the Invisible Man's footprints should have been barefoot, not shod. The book did include a few descriptions of near-flubs, in which directors repaired errors before they hit the theaters. The story of how Cecil B DeMille managed to have Jesus write in the sand while standing in a tiled Temple was ingenious and interesting. More stories along thse lines would have made the book worthwhile.
As a whole, the book was a disappointment and a bore. The flubs were mostly small and of interest only to the geekiest cineaste. A missed opportunity to expose the film-making process.
Look! A Roman centurion is wearing a Casio!.......2004-06-08
Roman soldiers, as we all know, didn't wear watches at the height of the Caesars' power. Not because they couldn't afford even an inexpensive digital watch, mind you, but simply because the watch -- heck, even the mechanical clock -- hadn't yet been invented. Yet, as Bill Givens will cheerfully point out in his extremely amusing (and for some film producers, dismaying) collection of film flubs, some ancients were way ahead of themselves. Modern watches, wedding rings and other anachronisms make their little unexpected cameos in such set-in-ancient-times epics as The Ten Commandments, The Viking Queen, and Spartacus.
Givens' Roman Soldiers Don't Wear Watches: 333 Film Flubs -- Memorable Movie Mistakes is a compilation of continuity errors, slips of dialogue, film-flipping flaws, and other unexpected mistakes that often pop up during production. Some of them have been published in other volumes of his successful "Film Flubs" series, but quite a few are new.
Many moviegoers are by now familiar with some of the realities of filmmaking, such as the fact that films are shot out of sequence, that many "takes" of a scene are shot, and thousands of feet of film are cut and spliced together in an editing room. Much care is taken to make sure the movie's final cut tells the story properly and that the scenes have no distracting flubs, but quite often things do slip by, even in movies that are considered among the very best, including Casablanca, Star Wars, Dances With Wolves, Pretty Woman, and Scent of a Woman.
Not every gripe is about honest mistakes (such as Mark Hamill's calling Princess Leia "Carrie" near the end of A New Hope -- chalk that one up to overexcitement in the actor's part and a temporary lapse in the sound editor's) or silly anachronisms such as a wristwatch on a Roman soldier's wrist in 44 BC. Some are careless lapses in attention to detail, as in the Sound of Music when the Von Trapps are fleeing from Austria to escape the Nazis. Instead of heading toward Switzerland and freedom, they are driving north, straight toward Germany. Some are accidental "cameos" by crewmembers -- such as the guy with the handheld camera in 1989's The Fabulous Baker Boys, glimpsed as the brothers fight after a fake telethon. Others are even worse, such as setting a film's scene in one season while it is quite clearly another.
Although most of the entries in this book are short -- often introduced with bon mots such as "How's That Again, Sam?" and "Is a Bird Bath the Fountain of Youth?" -- Givens does scrutinize big crowd pleasers (Apollo 13, Terminator II, Jurassic Park) in chapters with the heading Picking on the Biggies. Here Givens has great fun pointing out flubs (such as wrong markings on the Saturn V rocket in Apollo 13, wrong dates and even the premature existence of USA Today in Forrest Gump, and just about everything in Kevin Costner's Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves) in some really big moneymakers and/or critical darlings.
Some of the strangest flubs, such as the switch in direction of the "blood" on young Indy's chin in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade or attacking birds without shadows in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, are shown in black and white photos.
Givens, who is an entertainment reporter and TV writer, clearly has a love for the movies in general, so none of this is written with any mean-spiritedness or malice. Like Damien Boma in Starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan, his approach is lighthearted and funny while at the same time being factual. His intended audience is not, of course, the Hollywood insider or the technical expert. Rather it is for the average filmgoer who loves the medium, yet spots such bizarre little things as California license plates in a movie that's set in Illinois (1978's Halloween) or a crewmember's hairy arm where none should be (Butterfield 8).
must have.......2003-07-09
this is a must have for anyone that loves movies, it's fun to try and find some of the mistakes they talk about in this book.
Work it Bill.......1999-02-10
I must say that Bill has got what it takes. Even a musician puts out a greatest hit now and then. But Bill has added some new songs to his "Greatest Hits Book". I have enjoyed every page of this book. Bill has once again stayed in the realm of my standards as to a GREAT "G" rated book. I even enjoyed looking back at the past as Bill has taken the best and put it all together for his new readers out there. Encluding much new findings, this book is surely one to own. If you are in to finding out little know facts about your favorite movies that most people are never aware of then this is it. You will never waste a dime of your hard earned money on this book. You will get much more entertainment for the dollar here than if you had gone to the movies tonight and bought everybodies popcorn. Once again Bill Givens has done it again and I will always be first in line for any new books he releases. You to will become an addict to Bill's books after reading this one. Bill, I have given your book the highest 5 star rating but we both know that it is an 11 on the scale. This is GREAT "G" rated reading that will keep you amused not for days, weeks, but for years. If you don't believe me then buy this book and find out for yourself. I promise you will thank me later. Bill, please keep up the good work. Thank You.
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Extremely comprehensive.......2002-12-13
Had no idea so many mistakes aren't caught in the editing process. I guess if the mistakes weren't there we wouldn't have this incredibly funny, extremely detailed and informative book. Loved the way the authors had their own pictoral anecdotes in the margins. Very clever.
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Jar Jar Binks is clumsy! He has made Sebulba very mad. And that is bad! Will Jar Jar get crunched, or will he learn to be more careful? Read this colorful fully-illustrated beginner reader and find out.
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Jar Jar is so funny........2001-12-12
Jar Jar is so funny because he slurps up a frog and he splashes it into Sebulba's soup. That made my great-grandmother crack up! She read the whole book with me and she said funny things about the book. I think she was so excited that I could read it by myself, and thought that the book was extremely funny.
I liked the book a lot........1999-07-21
Even though I am almost 11, I loved this because I thought Jar-Jar was funny, and very clumsy. I want to say hi to my mommy, because she might read this. ***Meghan***
Character is weak... to say the least........1999-06-15
Review: Are you kidding? Would give it 0 stars if it were possible. This character is a waste of time - nothing but one long, very expensive FX test shot.
Out of touch........1999-06-02
This book is moderately entertaining by effectively providing a series of hand-drawn snapshots from the film. However, it centers around Jar Jar's blatant attempt to steal something from a shopkeeper! This is written off as 'he was hungry', but never addressed. In the end Anakin scolds Jar Jar and tells him to 'Be less afraid' after various run-ins with people Jar Jar annoyed. I'm not trying to be overly humorless and critical, but I also try to keep my children away from books that gloss over 'petty' crimes. His theft is supposed to be cute and funny, but loses its fractional humor by devolving into insults and physical abuse.
Jar Jar!.......1999-06-02
Jar Jar is the best, I love this book. I am eight andhalf years old. Please other kids should read this book.
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MOVIE MISTAKES.
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